No. 82-2012
Region Abdulkhaleq Abdulla: The US, Islamists, and Arab Gulf States
The way in which the Obama administration has decided to engage the phenomenal rise of the Muslim Brotherhood is raising many questions and a few concerns throughout the region, especially among some Arab Gulf States, that the United States was too quick to turn its back on its friends and too eager to roll out the red carpet for Islamist parties.
Egypt Tamer Wagih: Revolutionaries Must Resist Morsy, But Also the Feloul
On 12 August, President Mohamed Morsy issued a surprise constitutional declaration ending the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces grip on power. Three months later, on 22 November, Morsy issued a second unanticipated constitutional declaration, ordering the retrial of Mubarak regime leaders accused of killing revolutionary protesters and immunizing the Constituent Assembly and the Shura Council, as well as his own decisions, from judicial challenges. Morsy has been in power for only five months but has already revealed the nature of the Brotherhood and deepened an existing crisis.